Submitted 2 days ago by VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Numen: Contest of Heroes is a game that sits at about 50% recommended on steam. I beat it years ago and really enjoyed myself, but I knew it was a unique fit for me. I only say “bad” so that we have common ground, but I value that experience.
What are “bad” games you enjoy?
Empire total war on release, the battle AI was absolute garbage to the point where you can just start as the Netherlands, walk over to Paris and take their country.
Before everyone researches fire by rank you could just spread out the infantry and have 2x firepower. Cavalry charges straight into you, pathfinding was so bad that you’d have a single column of men moving through a wide area. Fucking loved it though, it was a grand strategy spectacle and naval battles felt intense.
I had fun unlocking the pirates via config file edit and spamming out general units from a single buccaneer sword infantry and took over all of the Americas.
“Bad” is of course subjective, but the games I play most are gacha games. Amazing graphics and music, etc. in a free to play* game.
*Of course they are designed to inspire spending money, and I do somewhat: The fixed monthly IAPs only, if I would need to spend extra to get a specific character or weapon I wait for a rerun.
But I like anime girls, and these games are full of them.
HSR is a powerhouse when you include the lore, story, graphics, music, etc., that just happens to also be a gacha game.
The Close Combat series up through maybe Close Combat III really wasn’t incredibly-well balanced. Like, if you’re playing on defense, a lot of the game basically consists of having a badly-outnumbered force, setting up an ambush with as much of your force as possible, opening up all at once when the other side is badly exposed and doing as much damage as possible. Then watch the game, and maybe once things have mostly died down, one moves a few units to reinforce.
In III, retreating as far as possible without losing an operation to get a ton of reinforcements, then pushing back through, is advantageous.
A lot of the game is about sticking heavy tanks on hills with good lines of sight.
I mean, there are just ways to play the game that the AI does not deal with well.
But I still had an absolute blast playing it.
The AI for Wargame: Red Dragon is pretty disappointing, and I generally don’t like playing games multiplayer, but I like the game enough that I was willing to just play against the AI. There were major improvements by Eugen in Steel Division 2 — it’s a far better game to play single-player. So…as a single-player game, I’d say that W:RD is a pretty bad game, but…I still really enjoyed playing it single-player.
Those all sound like legit realistic tactics though
Well, to some extent.
For the “fighting on a hill” thing, they didn’t implement hull-down, which would be kind of an important factor in the real world. And a lot of the drawbacks to heavy tanks, like logistics issues, didn’t really apply.
For the ambushes, you get to pre-position your forces, knowing pretty exactly where the enemy forces are, and both sides basically transport a substantial mass into place at one time. Kinda like teleporting two sides together into close proximity, and the computer not sending out reconnaissance units to feel out the other side, just starting a rush over open ground.
Somehow my brother wound up with a copy of Crash Time: Autobahn Pursuit for Xbox 360. There are many reasons to call it a bad game, and it’s a little odd to release a video game in North America for a German TV show few people in North America have heard of. We each beat the game eventually, but we had a lot more fun not playing the game the way it was intended and just driving around the open world racing each other and crashing into things. I even wrote to them suggesting they add a mode similar to the car soccer games Top Gear tried on their show (this was several years before Rocket League was released).
Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage for N64. By all rights it’s not a very good game, but something about it was just compelling to me.
I dunno if I'd still enjoy it if I went back to replay it today, but I have a childhood soft spot for Final Fantasy II. I loved the absurdity of being able to dual-wield shields and attack myself to level evasion, what a beautifully stupid game.
I had more fun with Jurassic Park: Trespasser and Die By the Sword than I should have just because they had early physics engines.
Peek-a-boo
Theres a fun top down Ice Hockey game called “Tape to Tape”
Its not a GREAT game, its a bit shallow but it is very fun.
I see this all the time on Linus Tech Tips and it looks great.
Hatred. I know it’s edgy for the sake of being edgy, and is not top gameplay, but I enjoy it as a fun passtime from time to time.
I played the hell out of Screamer 4x4
It had nothing to do with the Screamer racing games (which were early 3D PC games), it was actually an off road 4x4 trials game. Not very good in terms of game mechanics or graphics, but the physics were satisfying.
I loved Black Survival back in the day. It was early in the Battle Royal wave and it somehow made a visual novel style multiplayer BR fun for me, but any of my friends I convinced to try it absolutely despised it
A Valley Without Wind 1 and 2. Not big. Not well known. But damn I love em!
I might have an existential crisis, but: I don’t think any game you enjoy is bad by definition. Or is this about Metacritic ratings being bad? How do you know a game is bad, if you enjoy it?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For me it would be Dungeon Siege III, specifically in co-op. From what I understand people dislike it for its differences from the previous games in the franchise, and even that aside it is fairly janky and unintuitive. But if you can laugh at the unintuitive jank then there’s plenty worse games out there.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is a great example in the thread. I also really liked DS3, it was very fun despite (or maybe because of?) the jank.